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Enola Holmes is the youngest sibling in the famous Holmes family.

She
is extremely intelligent, observant, and insightful, defying the social
norms for women of the time. Her mother, Eudoria, has taught her
everything from chess to jujitsu and encouraged her to be strong-willed
and to think independently.
On her sixteenth birthday, Enola wakes to find that her mother has
disappeared, leaving behind only some birthday gifts. A week later, she
meets her brothers Mycroft and Sherlock at a train station, although they
fail to recognize her at first, not having seen her in many years. Sherlock
finds her to be intelligent, whereas Mycroft finds her troublesome, and as
her legal guardian intends to send her away to a finishing school run by
the stern Miss Harrison. The flower cards left by her mother reveal
secret messages and lead to hidden money, which Enola uses to
escape disguised as a boy. On the train, she finds the young Viscount
Tewkesbury hidden in a travel bag. She thinks he is a nincompoop, but
warns him that a man in a brown bowler hat (named Linthorn) is on the
train searching for him. Linthorn subsequently finds and tries to kill
Tewkesbury, leading to him and Enola jumping off the train to escape.
Neither having any food, Tewkesbury forages for edible plants and fungi.
They travel to London and part ways.
Disguised as a proper Victorian lady, Enola continues to trace Eudoria
and leaves cryptic messages in the newspaper personal advertisements.
Enola discovers pamphlets and a safehouse containing explosives, and
learns that Eudoria is part of a radical group of suffragettes. She is
attacked by Linthorn, who tortures her for information about Tewkesbury,
attempting to drown her. They fight, but she ignites the explosives in the
safehouse and escapes. Enola decides to pause the search for her
mother and instead find Tewkesbury again, intending to save him
because she thinks him incapable of defending himself. Enola visits the
Tewkesbury estate at Basilwether Hall to learn more. Meanwhile,
Mycroft has Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard search for Enola.
Enola finds Tewkesbury selling flowers in Covent Garden and warns him
of the danger. She takes him to her lodgings, but is caught by Lestrade
and imprisoned in Miss Harrison's finishing school by Mycroft. Sherlock
visits her and admits he is impressed by her detective work. Tewkesbury
sneaks into the school, and they escape together, stealing Miss
Harrison's motor car. They reach a fork in the road and, rather than
returning to London, Enola decides they must go to Basilwether Hall and
face Tewkesbury's uncle, who she has deduced was trying to kill him.
The estate is seemingly deserted, but Linthorn ambushes them, firing a
shotgun. Enola trips him using a jujitsu move, causing a fatal head injury.
Tewkesbury's grandmother is revealed as the real villain: a
staunch traditionalist, she did not want him to take his father's place in
the House of Lords and vote for the Reform Bill. She shoots her
grandson in the chest, but he survives thanks to a plate of armor he had
hidden under his clothes. Sherlock arrives at Scotland Yard and
Lestrade asks him two questions: first, how he managed to solve the
case, and second, how his sister solved it first.
Enola shares a tearful goodbye with Tewkesbury. She finds and
deciphers a message in a newspaper but deduces that it was not sent
by her mother. At the meeting point, Sherlock and Mycroft discuss
Enola, and Sherlock suggests becoming her guardian. They decide to
leave but Sherlock notices a clue, choosing not to look for Enola. All the
while Enola has been watching, disguised as a newsboy. Returning to
her lodgings, Enola finds her mother waiting there. They embrace, and
Eudoria explains why she had to leave, and why she must leave again,
but she is impressed by what Enola has become. Enola has found her
freedom and her purpose—she is a detective and a finder of lost souls.

JAMES MORIARTY

"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is


evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a
genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first
order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that
web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each
of them."
―Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson speaking about Professor Moriarty

Professor James Moriarty, the arch-enemy of the famous detective Sherlock


Holmes, a mathematics professor turned master criminal. His genius is
acknowledged by even Holmes himself to be on par with him.

Moriarty has been proven to be the most dangerous of all criminals that
Holmes has ever encountered. during a fight with Holmes above
the Reichenbach Falls, Moriarty fell to his death.

Professor Moriarty's first appearance and his ultimate end occurred in Doyle's
story "The Final Problem", in which Holmes, on the verge of delivering a fatal
blow to Moriarty's criminal ring, is forced to flee to the Continent to escape
retribution. The criminal mastermind follows, and the pursuit ends atop
the Reichenbach Falls, during which, Moriarty falls to his death while fighting
with Holmes. During this story, Moriarty is depicted as something of a Mafia
Godfather: he protects nearly all of the criminals of England in exchange for
their obedience and a share in their profits. Holmes, by his own account, was
originally led to Moriarty by the suggestion that many of the crimes he
perceived were not the spontaneous work of random criminals, but the
machinations of a vast and subtle criminal ring. In such a way, he is described
as a Consulting Criminal, the opposite of Holmes, a Consulting Detective.
Moriarty plays a direct role in only one other of Doyle's Holmes stories: The
Valley of Fear, which was set before "The Final Problem," but published
afterward. In "The Valley of Fear", Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty's
agents from committing a murder. Moriarty does not meet Holmes in this
story. In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed by a policeman, a painting
by Jean-Baptiste Greuze is described as hanging on the wall; Holmes
remarks on another work by the same painter to show it could not have been
purchased on a professor's salary. The work referred to is La jeune fille à
l'agneau; some commentators have described this as a pun by Doyle upon the
name of Thomas Agnew of the gallery Thomas Agnew and Sons, who had a
famous painting stolen by Adam Worth, but was unable to prove the fact.

Professor Moriarty was an extremely intelligent person. He is mentioned by


Holmes himself as having a mind of the first order. He was a mathematical
and scientific genius with a distinguished academic reputation. Moriarty,
unfortunately, possessed a lust for power that led to criminal practices.

Professor Moriarty impresses Holmes, who is not easily impressed, with his
incredible talent at organizing elaborate crimes throughout London whilst
keeping his own identity and involvement effectively anonymous from the
authorities. However, Moriarty's personality speedily developed into that of a
calculative, sociopathic megalomaniac.

When he appears in The Final Problem, he is introduced as a ruthless,


cunning and decisively malicious person. He expresses his intelligence to
Holmes, but also his profound ruthlessness. Moriarty admits that physically
dueling with Holmes is considered an extreme measure on his part, but is still
entirely willing to resort to it - this means that he is completely willing to go
beyond his comfort zone if need be. He is also shown to be abundantly self-
confident.

Moriarty's malevolence is shown when, after his famous first encounter with
Holmes, he arranges three ways of trying to kill Holmes but simultaneously
make it look coincidental or accidental.

Moriarty was an exceptionally intelligent and cunning criminal genius. He is


so smart that even Sherlock Holmes considers Moriarty to be his equal and
have a brain of the first order and was very impressed by his intellectual
abilities. His cunning intellect is his most dangerous trait.

Moriaty was highly accomplished in the field of mathematics, with abilities


that earned him significant renown and even impressed Holmes. At the age of
21, he published a treatise on the binomial theorem which was lauded
throughout Europe and earned him a chair at a provincial university. Moriaty
also applied his mathematical faculties to other scientific fields, such as
astronomy. His book The Dynamics of an Asteroid, was said by Holmes to
"ascend to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there
was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it."

Moriarty had particularly unparalled mastery of criminal techniques to the


point that Holmes even called him as "The Napoleon of Crime", with a vast
network of criminal followers, and was an exceptional tactician and actor. His
strategic and acting capabilities and phenomenal levels of skill and talent for
organising criminal activities to perfection throughout even the most powerful
and widespread of cities while effectively keeping his identity anonymous
was so great that he impresses even Sherlock, who is not easily impressed
and was easily able to remain completely unsuspected as the world's only
consulting criminal and the most dangerous of all of Sherlock's foes while
executing his criminal activities to perfection throughout the extremely large
and powerful London city, never actually personally employing the crimes but
sending his henchmen and creating the plans to flawlessly complete the
assigned crime. Even when the police managed to capture all of his followers,
Moriarty somehow escaped and managed to use what remained of his men to
very nearly kill Sherlock, by easily tricking Watson into leaving Sherlock so he
can confront him with a letter and stationing some of his men to help him
should it be needed. His ability to remain unsuspected for his criminal
activities and act as a humile man as well as his self control was so great
that Holmes said that for calling Moriaty a criminal, Watson would mean
uttering a liabel in the eyes of the law and be hauled to the court and
pensioned for a year.

Although an older man with a frail and aging appearance, and often preferring
to deal with problems using his brains rather than fighting head on,
considering physical dueling to be an extreme measure that should only be
used as a last resort, Moriaty proved to be surprisingly highly deadly in hand-
to-hand combat. Moriaty proved he had a very huge amount of skill in martial
arts as well as proving to be in excellent physical condition for a man of his
age and appearance. His skills and physically fit body made him quite
confident in engaging in a fist fight and he is entirely willing to resort to it if
pushed or angered, as he fought against the highly martial arts proficient and
physical fit Sherlock Holmes in close quarters combat with full confidence in
his abilities to handle himself in physical combat and he indeed proved to be
so ferocious in a brawl as of having surprised Holmes with his tenacity, as
well as being skillful and powerful enough in melee combat to be able to go
toe-to-toe with and even almost defeat the renowned detective, as he
managed to gain the upper hand and get a grip on him. Sherlock only survived
the duel with Moriaty due to using his knowledge of Jujizu to free himself and
cause him to lose his balance and fall.

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